Human Rights Watch calls for a welfare centre for Tibetan refugees in Nepal to be reopened.

The Economist, meanwhile, (subscription required) reports on how the Maoist insurgency is having an "incalcuable" effect on Nepal's children as schools as forced to shut down.

"The implications of this for the country's future are so bleak that it seems it should be in everybody's interests to change it," the Economist notes gloomily.